disabilities to medical institutions and facilities, and information on the community-based rehabilitation treatment structure, which allows persons with disability to receive rehabilitation treatment in their resident community. 74. Provide information of the government policies to alleviate financial burden caused by additional medical expenses for disability treatment, and to protect the right to health of persons with disabilities. 75. Specify whether a structure of systematic risk evaluation based on objective statistical data, such as the mortality rate and the incidence of disease and disaster, is being utilized by the insurance companies to provide insurance subscription services for persons with disabilities; and provide the government’s plans to retract its reservation to Article 25, paragraph (e) of the Convention. Article 27- Work and Employment Current status 76. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, 1,514 cases (58 percent), out of 2,609 cases applied at the end of 2016, were permitted to be excluded from the minimum wage standards on the ground of the disability clause of the Minimum Wage Act (MWA). Furthermore, 7,935 workers from 656 enterprises were being excluded from the minimum wage standards. At the present moment, there is no other means or policy complementary to the exclusion from application of minimum wage clause (Article 7), and the government is of the opinion that closing down shelter workshops, which seem to be the only alternative place to conduct work and social activities for persons with severe disabilities, is not an appropriate practical option. 77. Based on the Employment Promotion and Vocational Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons Act (EVDPA), the 2016 standard requires the central and local governments, public agencies and private businesses to hire disabled workers to make up at least 3.0 percent, 3.0 percent and 2.7 percent, respectively, of workforce. However, the Ministry of Employment and Labor’s data indicates that the rates of mandatory employment of disabled workers fell short from the EVDPA standard, and the rates were only reaching 2.81 percent, 2.96 percent and 2.56 percent, respectively. In particular, the failing of the constitutional institutions and the Office of Education 20